Bigger, more mature, and better than its foregoer, the fifth-gen Micra is Nissan’s calling card in the subcompact hatchback segment. When pre-orders for UK customers open later this month, the 2017 Nissan Micra will kick off from £11,995 for the Visia.
“Wait, isn’t the 2016 Nissan Micra way less than that?” Good point, but bear in mind the new kid on the block trumps its predecessor in more than one way. Hence the £4,000 difference. Additionally, the Micra will be available with its best, most powerful engines at launch: a 0.9-liter three-cylinder turbo petrol and a 1.5-liter turbo diesel, each developing 90 brake horsepower.
Later on, a 1.0-liter naturally aspirated three-cylinder will join the range with 73 bhp on tap. “Wait a minute, isn’t the Dacia Sandero available with exactly the same engines and outputs?” It is, but it shouldn’t come as a surprise to you. Renault owns Dacia, and the French automaker does like to share its goodies with Nissan. Still, the 0.9 TCe, 1.5 dCi, and 1.0 SCe are good mills in their own right, designed around the fuel economy-minded customer.
In the United Kingdom, Nissan will offer the Micra in five trim levels: Visia, Visia+, Acenta, N-Connecta, and Tekna, with the latter being priced from £17,295. The manufacturer expects the Acenta IG-T 90 (£14,995) to be the most popular grade-engine combination of the all-new Micra's model lineup.
To be built in France at the Renault plant in Flins, the 2017 Nissan Micra will start rolling into dealerships from March 2017. Pricing in euros for the rest of Europe and full information about trim levels will be revealed at a later date.
These being said, the Micra has serious competition coming its way from the Blue Oval. More to the point, from the recently presented 2017 Ford Fiesta. The eighthseventh-generation model is the best Fiesta yet, albeit the starting price is expected to overshadow that of the Micra by a noticeable margin.
After a 1:43 scale model of a Ferrari 250 GTO sparked Mircea's interest for cars when he was a kid, an early internship at Top Gear sealed his career path. He's most interested in muscle cars and American trucks, but he takes a passing interest in quirky kei cars as well. Full profile
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